The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-06-21
a sel.-wiIIed Heiress.

The determination OF Mile Helen
Rothschild to marry according to her
own wishes and without regard for
what the Rabbis, the great banking
family to which she belongs. or Mrs.
Grundy may say, is the town talk of
the hour and the sensation Of the
world in these parts. The young lady
is the only daughter Of the late Baron
Solomon Rothschild by Rothschild,
whose mother was a Rothschild and
of the lineage of Meyer Amschel
Rothschild. the founder of the great
FIVE headed bank Mile Helen is not
at all pretty and has a coarse figure
and q plain fat and communicating
Judeo-German face. One of her pas
sions Is horses. another dogs, another
and who can blame her for it fine
looking men. A fine man never ex
listed in the banking dynasty to which
she belongs, although it has been long
mania of Baron Alphonse Rothschild
to disguise himself in the morning
and at nightful as a blouse wearing
artisan and pay court to work-girls
going or returning from their work in
the hope of finding among them some
pearl Of rare price whom he could in
duce before raining down gold on her
to love him for himself. Mile. Helen
Rothschild has been greatly attacked
by slanderous tongues. In France
nobody understands girl Of her in
dependent character. She Is one of
the best hearted persons in existence,
aspires really to do good in the world,
and is of q bounteous, untheatrical
nature, hating the artifcialities of
what it is agreed to term high life"
She thinks the Jewish Rabbis are as
bad oppressors as the Catholic priests,
inasmuch as they set their faces
against mixed marriages. Jewish
marriages, be it known, are the grand
source of the Rabbis' incomes, at least
here. A Rabbits fee for joining the
hands of bride and bridegroom in
first class style ! 4 thousand dollars.
His lowest one is hundred dollars.
Mile Helen Rothschild is of opinion
that if her ancestors had transmitted
to her beauty. splendid health and
fine brain, they would be more deserv-
ing of her gratitude than in leaving
her fortune which is computed at
seventy millions Of dollars. All that
her father left her when she was an
infant has increased during her mino
rity to that great sum total Opulent
Baroness Solomon Rothschild was
under no temptation to enjoy any of
it, or to take ont of the heritage the
money it cost for her daughters
maintenance and education.
The object OF the young lady's pas
sion is Belgian cavalry officer of old
Catholic family who last winter led
cotillons at her mothers balls, and is
almost as penniless as the first SAKE
Coburg prince who quartered himself
on the English was when he went
there to court the Princess Charlotte |
of Wales. Baroness Solomon Roths 1
child is also kind. good soul. and it
would grieve her greatly to stand in
the way of her only child's happiness. I
However, she thought she must resist /
the young lady's will, and all the more /
so as the whole kith and kin urged her !
to d|i so. But this Helen of modern (
had said she was of age and meant I
to take her head She would nos /
elope, but would set up on her own
account with all her personal attend
ants. horses, dogs and the rest at the
house at PierTefonds of the doctor
who presided at her birth, and stay
there until she had forced by legal